Sea Bears Drop First of the Season in 103-101 Heartbreaker at Scarborough

The Winnipeg Sea Bears fell 103-101 to the Scarborough Shooting Stars at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre on Tuesday morning, suffering their first loss of the 2026 CEBL season as the home side outscored Winnipeg 34-26 in a frantic fourth quarter to flip the script. The Sea Bears drop to 2-1.

For nearly three quarters it looked like Winnipeg would walk out of Scarborough with a third straight win. Teddy Allen was scorching, the offence was humming, and the Sea Bears built their lead as high as 10. But the Shooting Stars had Myles Powell — and Powell decided he was going to have the ball. The captain dropped a game-high 41 points on 15-of-26 shooting, including nine three-pointers, with several daggers coming in the fourth.

Head coach Mike Raimbault credited Powell's craft afterward, saying he "did a great job of punishing us when he made mistakes. He made tough shots. He's crafty with the ball, and he finds a way to get into open space."

The blow that hurt most came late, when the Sea Bears actually got the stop they wanted — Powell missed — only to watch the Shooting Stars rebound and convert on the second chance. It was a recurring theme. Scarborough's Frank Mitchell was a one-man wrecking ball off their bench with 20 points, 14 rebounds and five assists, and those extra possessions added up: the Shooting Stars finished with 27 second-chance points to Winnipeg's 16.

Armani Chaney pointed to that sequence as the moment the game slipped: "Obviously, we know he wanted to take the last shot, and we missed the defensive rebound to go the other way. Definitely a situation where I feel like we kind of lost a little focus in that moment." He added that Winnipeg "still fought back and took a 10-point lead, and then we gave it away. We just need to learn how to hold on to the leads and figure out what we need to do when we have the advantage."

Winnipeg didn't lose this one on offence. Allen finished with 33 points, eight rebounds and four assists. Armani Chaney was electric off the bench, knocking down four of his five three-point attempts for 14 points and dishing six assists. Akot and Trey McGowens added 12 apiece, with McGowens running point for six assists, and Davion Warren chipped in 10. The Sea Bears shot 46% from the floor, 44% from deep and a clean 22-of-27 from the line.

Trey McGowens pointed to the offence going quiet at the wrong time, saying the Sea Bears were "just being stagnant on offense, especially a couple possessions down the stretch — not getting movement. That's pretty much the biggest thing." Down the stretch, he said, they "got to get people organized, get better actions, and make sure the pace is there."

There's also the small matter of the 10 a.m. central tip — a wake-the-body-up kind of start that showed in the first quarter, where Winnipeg was outscored 22-16. The Sea Bears found their legs in the second, ripping off 34 points to take a lead into the half, but the cushion they built was never quite enough to survive Powell's fourth-quarter heater.

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